2. Edie Sedgwick

"When he saw her, Andy sucked in his breath and said

'Oh! She's so bee-you-ti-ful"'

-Lester Persky

"That is unusual, to look like you had just walked out of a fairy tale. She had nothing human about her, just a mystery"

- Ivy Nicholson

I was and I still am a fan of Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol’s muse. I first found out about her from the preview of (but I did not see the movie) and from fashion magazines. I started reading about her online and in books. The first time I saw a picture of her, I thought she was so beautiful and attractive. My friend once said that Edie and Audrey Hepburn looked alike because they both were skinny and had huge eyes. But I liked Edie more because she was a rebel. She was unique. From clothing to her life style, everything was so different from other celebrities. She hangout with artists and worked with them. I always thought that she represented the 60’s. She was honest, maybe too honest about her fears and her desires. She wanted to be a star and she knew who to find; Andy Warhol. In a short black and white film, “The Ciao Manhattan Tapes”, Edie was talking about herself. The film was so ironic because Edie was shot so beautifully and gracefully in the film but in her monologue and in her real life, it wasn’t so beautiful. There ware images of her smiling at the camera, singing and dancing at parties wearing big hats throughout the film but the background audio was her talking about how she was taken advantage by her photographer, how she can't stop taking drugs and how she doesn’t ‘give a crap’ about what she is doing in this entertainment and fashion industry. I wonder what made her so crazy. Was it her fame? Or was it the artists and the public that were taking advantage of her? I read it online that she continued shooting for the film while she was hospitalized for anorexia and was getting shock treatments from the mental hospital. I wonder why some of the most beautiful and adored people hated themselves so much. Another example would be Marilyn Monroe. Edie Sedgwick died when she was 28 years old due to drug overdose.